They knew all along. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLii...
The deficit reduction may make up the difference, who knows. Does this affect your life in any way? Will you pay higher taxes?
If they told you the Iraq and Afghanistan operatins would cost $3 trillion over 11 years would you have been opposed to them in 2001? These are just numbers.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.